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Cell

ATI 9600 88% acceleration with "stock" out of the box driver, 0% NONE NADA ZIP ZILCH KAPUT ! with new or any other ATI drivers (I have tried everything!) , Oh well beggars cant be choosers !

JOHNNYG

ATI 9600 88% acceleration with "stock" out of the box driver, 0% NONE NADA ZIP ZILCH KAPUT ! with new or any other ATI drivers (I have tried everything!) , Oh well beggars cant be choosers !

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also a quick mention, you need to activate the ATI FGLRX driver under Hardware Drivers and then reboot again.

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver
http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... all_Method
http://tinyurl.com/yhkvqyk

Amir...that driver doesn't work for more than half of ati cards now.



edit:I should say it doesn't out of the box.But theres is a way that a lot of people don't know about.Indecently I tried my trick on karmic,and it will work also,but you must roll the kernel back a few...not worth it for me.

The new 2.6.31-14 generic kernel of the new Karmic doesn't support again the microsoft vx 1000 lifecam webcam.
I tried all my known old trick and tips but nothing yet.All the tried drivers aren't allowed to be installed even,only errors.
Maybe they come with more new kernel updates or J. Francois comes with a new working driver for us.

(I have tried everything!)

Everything?How did your card work in 8.10 with the propriety driver?

You know theres a way to get it working in Jaunty...have you tried that?

Cell wrote:

(I have tried everything!)

Everything?How did your card work in 8.10 with the propriety driver?

You know theres a way to get it working in Jaunty...have you tried that?

Hi cell, The prop. drivers worked somewhat, but the out of box drivers work better, in both 8.10 and 9.04, With the prop. drivers Compiz would freeze right away and no open GL or Apps like Google earth, without turning off Compiz and switching to Metacity, with O.O.B. drivers I have acceleration ,at least enough to appreciate the total Ultimate Edition experience ! And Open GL Screensavers don't freeze right away, I will wait to experiment again with Ultimate Edition 2.4 and see what happens, All in All i am still happy with what I have But I would still like to have 100% acceleration , Ill take what I can get!!

Karmic is a different beast altogether.You won't have a xorg.conf file unless you can use the fglrx,or ATI driver.

But it is 100% better than the past(the open source drivers) I'm able to run compiz,fps online games,xbmc,mythtv,ect., right out of the box.Im still hacking at the radeon driver tho,but I don't see it being an improvement.

i recently upgraded from a athlon 5200 x2 to a amd phenom 2 x4 965
i also upraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte Ma790xt-ud4p its running karmic awesomely
as for my graphics card His ati radeon 4670 512mb im using the ati drivers and it hasnt crashed once im getting pretty good proformance out of it

well i was wondering there is a 1gb version of my card could i crossfire it with my 512 one?

If crossfire is supported then ya you can.Don't quote me ,but I *think* CF is only supported in ATI's CCC.Not the one from ubuntu.The thing is tho if one card has higher specs i.e. mem timings then it will always revert back to the card with lower settings.I have CF x1600xt's but can't play with em because I can only use the open source driver(no Cf)....I am looking at new egg for new hardware tho.